r/IWantOut rules, stats, and what to post

This is Reddit's expatriate community. People post here because they want to move to another country and they need help figuring out how to do it legally. The description points to a sidebar with tips for getting the most out of the subreddit, and the rules make the focus clear: everything here is about legal immigration. The people asking questions want specific, practical paths to a new country. The people answering are expected to give detailed advice too. That is the whole room. It is not a place for politics, and the rules say so directly.

Rule one is “Stay on the topic of legal immigration”, and it says political posts and comments get removed and can earn a temporary or permanent ban, so keep politics out of anything you write. Rule five is “No Spam or Advertising”, which allows recommendations but bans spam and advertising, and it invites you to ask the mod team if you are unsure, which is a friendly door for a founder. Rule four is “Observe the title format”, and all posts must follow the prescribed title format or they get removed, with the details in the wiki. Rule three is “Be detailed in your post”, which expects your country of origin and destination, age range, education, qualifications, budget, and some evidence of research. Rule two is “Nothing illegal”, which bans advice on illegal activities. Rule six is “No reposts of identical questions”, so re-posting the same question because you disliked the answers is not allowed. Rule seven is “No telling people a place is full”, and it carries an immediate and permanent ban, even for saying a country has a housing crisis.

If you are a founder, the honest path here is narrow, and that is fine. You can leave recommendations when someone asks for something you happen to know about, because the rules explicitly allow recommendations. That means you might name a tool or a service in a reply where it genuinely helps someone plan a move. What you cannot do is post an ad or dress up a promo as a question. If you want to post at all, the safest shape is a genuinely detailed question or a genuinely detailed answer that follows the title format from the wiki and includes your own country of origin and destination, age range, education, qualifications, and budget. Give more than you take, and let a recommendation surface only when it is the true answer to a question someone asked.

Politics first: political posts or comments can be removed and can get you a temporary or permanent ban under “Stay on the topic of legal immigration”. Spam and advertising get removed under “No Spam or Advertising”. Vague posts get removed under “Be detailed in your post”, including requests to move to large regions instead of one specific country, or posts where the poster has clearly done no research. Wrong title formats get removed under “Observe the title format”. Anything illegal gets removed under “Nothing illegal”. Re-posting an identical question gets removed under “No reposts of identical questions”. And the harshest one, telling someone a place is full or saying a country has a housing crisis, gets an immediate and permanent ban under “No telling people a place is full”. There were no observed top posts for this community, so I cannot tell you what has already worked, only what the rules clearly allow.

The strictest rule I have ever seen in a guide so far is “No telling people a place is full”, because it carries an immediate and permanent ban and even a housing crisis comment counts. That tells me this room is protective of hopeful posters, so any marketing move has to be gentle. The title format rule is also unusual in how mechanical it is, which makes the wiki the single most useful link for anyone posting here.